Colin Ward was an editor of the Britishanarchist newspaper Freedom from 1947 to 1960 and was the founder and editor of the monthly libertarian journal Anarchy[?] from 1961 to 1970. He was also the author of Anarchy in Action. He has written widely on education, architecture and town planning.

Ward became an anarchist while serving in the British army during World War II and continues to write and publish on a wide variety of topics.